Hello,

I'm struggling with a GRAPH. Say I want to display the percentage per week of each type of car sold, like so:

APP HOLD IBISAMP
-RUN

DEFINE FILE SALES
	YEAR/I4 = EDIT(EDIT(DATE, '99'));
	MONTH/I2 = EDIT(EDIT(DATE, '$$$99'));
END
TABLE FILE SALES
SUM PCT.CNT.PROD_CODE AS '%'
ACROSS YEAR AS 'Year'
ACROSS MONTH AS 'Month'
BY PROD_CODE AS 'Type'
HEADING
"Sales per code per month"
END

I got this to work for another graph where I didn't have the extra BY-clause, but this cumulative thing is causing me trouble!
What it should look like, except that the X-axis labels should be split into separate month and year labels is this:

GRAPH FILE SALES
SUM PCT.CNT.PROD_CODE AS '%'
ACROSS DATE AS 'Year/Month'
BY PROD_CODE AS 'Type'
HEADING
"Sales per code per month"
ON GRAPH SET LOOKGRAPH VBRSTKPC
ON GRAPH SET GRAPHEDIT SERVER
ON GRAPH SET BARNUMB OFF
ON GRAPH SET 3D OFF
ON GRAPH SET VZERO ON
ON GRAPH SET GRID ON
ON GRAPH SET VAXIS 380
ON GRAPH SET HAXIS 1000
ON GRAPH SET GRMERGE ON
ON GRAPH PCHOLD FORMAT PNG
END

I can't get that to work though, I don't get much further than this:

DEFINE FILE SALES
	YEAR/I4 = EDIT(EDIT(DATE, '99'));
	MONTH/I2 = EDIT(EDIT(DATE, '$$$99'));
END
GRAPH FILE SALES
SUM PCT.CNT.PROD_CODE AS '%'
ACROSS YEAR AS 'Year'
ACROSS MONTH AS 'Month'
BY PROD_CODE AS 'Type'
HEADING
"Sales per code per month"
ON GRAPH PCHOLD FORMAT PNG
ON GRAPH SET GRAPHDEFAULT OFF
ON GRAPH SET VZERO ON
ON GRAPH SET HTMLENCODE ON
ON GRAPH SET HAXIS 1000
ON GRAPH SET VAXIS 380
ON GRAPH SET UNITS PIXELS
ON GRAPH SET LOOKGRAPH VBRSTKPC
ON GRAPH SET BARNUMB OFF
ON GRAPH SET 3D OFF
ON GRAPH SET GRID ON
ON GRAPH SET GRWIDTH 1
ON GRAPH SET GRMERGE ADVANCED
ON GRAPH SET GRMULTIGRAPH 0
ON GRAPH SET GRLEGEND 1
ON GRAPH SET GRXAXIS 2
END

The trouble is, instead of putting year:month on the X-axis (although the label says it did), it's actually putting product-code:year in there and the graph isn't cumulative at all!
The LEGEND looks right though.

I have tried a bunch of things, but I can't seem to get this to work the way I want to. HELP!

[Edit: Used the sample tables now that I know how to query those]

This message has been edited. Last edited by: Kerry,

Hi Wep5622,

I consulted with our technicals and was suggested that this issue may be better addressed by a case with Customer Support Services. To open a case, please either call at 1-800-736-6130, or access online at InfoResponse.

Cheers,

Kerry

Thanks for looking into this.
Are you saying this isn't intended behaviour? No wonder I couldn't get it to work then...

Before opening a case on "this", I'm not exactly sure what the issue is exactly - I'm fairly new to creating graphs, there's still quite a bit of trial-and-error involved
Should we be able to tell the graph to ignore the first n sort fields or should the graph select sort fields counting from the tail of the query definition instead of from the head? Is that what is going on here at all?

I probably should try to apply these graphs to the CAR sample tables too...

Hi Wep5622,

Do you have any update on trial-and-error testing? A case may be of better help.

Cheers,

Kerry